Books: The Intolerable Touch

Since Robert Frost is only 74 and sound as a hickory ax handle, this
book is not likely to be his last. It does, however, contain his
lifework up to the present, including several poems not printed in book
form. And though this is not the sense intended, the title is correct
about the poems: almost every one of them is complete as a work of art.
Moreover, Frost is a complete poet, one of the few who ever stuck it
out as such in a tough country for poets. Frost's reputation has...